#11079: SIGSEGV test throws SIGBUS instead on certain systems
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   Reporter:  jdemeyer        |       Owner:  mvngu   
       Type:  defect          |      Status:  new     
   Priority:  major           |   Milestone:  sage-4.7
  Component:  doctest         |    Keywords:          
     Author:  Jeroen Demeyer  |    Upstream:  N/A     
   Reviewer:                  |      Merged:          
Work_issues:                  |  
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 In the file `sage/tests/interrupt.pyx` there is a test for a segmentation
 fault by explicitly dereferencing a NULL pointer.  However, on some
 systems (at least Mac OS X 10.4 PPC) this generates a SIGBUS instead of a
 SIGSEGV.

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Ticket URL: <http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/11079>
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